Rudy Post-season DRTG - sup wit dat?

[Eminence]

Rudy's been alright (not great, but not bad). Rebounding has been great as Cy shared, the defense is good (holding Houston over 6 pts under their season average - per 100), offensively his hands have looked a bit worse than usual, but that's at least partially due to lack of Rubio. Overall I think we're just having the bad moments stick in our mind because we're out talented. It's almost all the offense letting us down (not surprising at all without Rubio).

 

[NUMBERICA]

Bad matchups.

He's tired.

He needs to be more skilled.

He could use more consistent help with spacing.

He could use ANY HELP AT ALL with the team taking charges (WHICH THEY DON'T DO AT ALL [he's going to have to guard on the perimeter, and the Jazz have to have other ways to protect the rim/paint]).

 

[NUMBERICA]

Bad matchups.

He's tired.

He needs to be more skilled.

He could use more consistent help with spacing.

He could use ANY HELP AT ALL with the team taking charges (WHICH THEY DON'T DO AT ALL [he's going to have to guard on the perimeter, and the Jazz have to have other ways to protect the rim/paint]).

The team taking charges thing comes down to the coaching staff, of course.

The Jazz could do worse than doing a lot of what the Rockets do, but with more ball-movement. That means
-learning to protect the paint by committee because Gobert can't always be there.
-consider dispensing with the traditional power forward (unless you have a legit star that can come out on the net-positive with their size/strength).

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

The team taking charges thing comes down to the coaching staff, of course.

The Jazz could do worse than doing a lot of what the Rockets do, but with more ball-movement. That means —among other things — learning to protect the paint by committee

I asked for this a couple years ago. Especially when guys are attacking as much as Harden does taking a charge is huge... tags them with a foul and can help take away those floaters where they take off early... as well as the floating lob passes.

In general I think the charge is a dumb call and puts many more players at risk than just contesting shots, but the reward is huge.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

I thought Utah would win 2 games, I think I was wrong.

When I knew Rubio was going to miss multiple games, likely even 4, I hoped we could steal just one. I'd still feel like the season was an overall success even if we got swept by the best team of the season. But I think it's great we stole one from them. Something to build on. I'm excited about the future.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

They need to start trapping at half-court. Throw a quick double or triple on them then bounce back.

I think this would be disastrous with Harden and CP3 on the floor at the same time.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Stronger requires muscle. Muscle adds more weight than fat.

Ten more pounds and he'd be the same weight as Olajuwon.

It's not quite that simple, but redistributing weight and adding a little muscle, 5 lbs in the lower body, would help. Adding 10-20 lbs of good weight is like a year long journey if done naturally. Not sure an NBA player can do it with the amount of hard cardio their job requires.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

I think Snyder is getting out-coached in this one, along with us not playing well to begin with. Does not bode well for game 5. But at least it wasn't a sweep.

I thought Quin waited a bit too long last night at the end to get Ingles back on the floor instead of Crowder. Other than that, I think he's piecing things together the best he can with what he has.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

Throughout the regular season the top defensive rebounding percentage was 80.7% and the worst was 75.6%

Here are the Jazz's defensive rebounding percentage numbers in the Houston series

Game 1: 79.5%
Game 2: 79.6%
Game 3: 92.7%
Game 4: 80.4%

So yeah, Rudy's rebounding is really a non-issue in this series. Houston's regular season offensive rebound rate was 21.3%, so Utah has held Houston below it's average in every single game thus far. Also consider we have no Rubio in this series, who is a top 10 rebounding PG in the NBA and someone who secures a lot of long misses of the team and averaged 7.3 per game in the OKC series despite only playing 7 minutes due to injury in the last game.

Rubio missing really killed us. It was clear even in game 6 versus OKC. We need him.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

When I knew Rubio was going to miss multiple games, likely even 4, I hoped we could steal just one. I'd still feel like the season was an overall success even if we got swept by the best team of the season. But I think it's great we stole one from them. Something to build on. I'm excited about the future.

The playoff reps are friggin huge for these guys... DM and Rudy can go into the lab and get better. Just based on working through these hard situations I think we win a ton more regular season games next year. Success like this builds on itself.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I thought Quin waited a bit too long last night at the end to get Ingles back on the floor instead of Crowder. Other than that, I think he's piecing things together the best he can with what he has.

I was watching the game last night thinking "why the hell is Neto still on the floor" and then I realized Rubio out, Exum out, AB not great... and then I thought damn... we done.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It is one of those things if we were 100% healthy and they had 1-2 injuries things may be different. That's the playoffs... it happens.